Crazy Halloween

Halloween certainly kicked off with some craziness. Maggie and I were dead asleep next to Mom when the house alarm went off early Friday morning. Mom and Dad freaked out and leaped out of bed. The phone rang and it was the alarm people. Being 1:45 a.m. Dad couldn't think of the exact password but Mom told him it was one of two passwords so he told that to the alarm people..."It's either this or that." Then he hung up after finding out it was the fire alarm and relaying to Brinks that there was no fire or smoke. While he was trying to turn off the beeping disabled fire alarm, Mom's cell phone rings and in the distance a siren is coming closer and closer to the house. It was really killing my ears so I ran around the house with Maggie. Mom answers the phone and tells the alarm people the same password as Dad but they keep asking "which one?" She doesn't know which one because it's almost two a.m. in the freakin' morning and we've all been woken up out of a deep sleep. Then she asks if they sent the fire dept. and they say "yes". Mom asks them "why, we told you there wasn't any fire" and the alarm people said it was because Dad didn't know the exact password he only said one of the passwords, the secondary one. So the fire department arrives with lights flashing and these giant firemen with all their gear on tromp into the house and look around for the fire while Mom and Dad stand around nearly in their underwear. Maggie and I hide under the bed because those guys sure are big. After the firemen leave Mom asks Dad, "Did the alarm people think someone broke into our house at 2 a.m., set a fire, then answer the phone when Brinks calls and tells them the secondary password just for fun?! I mean, who does that? Why couldn't they just accept the secondary password? Who could think of anything at 2 a.m. with a loud alarm blaring. After finally getting the primary password out of the alarm people and figuring out how to turn off the beeping which involved crawling into the top of a closet and moving a heavy wardrobe, Mom and Dad went to bed. Maggie and I were freaked out for awhile (I'm telling you those firemen were REALLY BIG with VERY LARGE BOOTS), but we curled up with our humans and went back to sleep.